character encoding in freemarker

Hi Mackinaw,

Freemarker offers a few built-ins for encoding, depending on exactly what you want to accomplish. Perhaps one of these will work for you?

http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/ref_builtins_string.html#ref_builtin_xml

http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/ref_builtins_string.html#ref_builtin_url

There's also HTML and XHTML encoding, in case that's helpful:

http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/ref_builtins_string.html#ref_builtin_html

http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/ref_builtins_string.html#ref_builtin_xhtml

And if none of those will do exactly what you'd like, there's also a replace built-in:

http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/ref_builtins_string.html#ref_builtin_replace

I hope this helps!

Thanks - I found some inconsistent on how/when the client application passes the value through v. parses it - i wound up just using CDATA instead.

Thanks,

Paul